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The Empty Glass

By:
J. I. Baker

Narrated by:
Kirby Heyborne,
Arielle DeLisle

Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
13

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
9

Story

4 out of 5 stars
9

In the early-morning hours of August 5, 1962, Los Angeles County deputy coroner Ben Fitzgerald arrives at the home of the world's most famous movie star, now lying dead in her bedroom, naked and still clutching a telephone. There he discovers The Book of Secrets - Marilyn Monroe's diary - revealing a doomed love affair with a man she refers to only as "The General". In the following days, Ben unravels a wide-ranging cover-up and some heartbreaking truths about the fragile, luminous woman behind the celebrity. Soon the sinister and surreal accounts in The Book of Secrets bleed into Ben's own life....